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The Kaplan Lady Pirates won their 17th straight game, beating Class 5A Barbe on Thursday, Nachitoches Central, 3-2 , Ouachita Parish 9-1 and Assumption 6-5.
With the wins, the Lady Pirates (23-2)  climbed to No. 2 in the Division III Non-Select power rankings. 
This past week, the Lady Pirates beat three Division I Non Select schools that are ranked in the Top 28 and one Division II Non Select school.
Barbe is No. 28, while Natchitoches Central (11-14) is No. 31 and Ouachita Parish (15-13) is No. 20. KHS beat 24-5 Assumption, who is No. 4 in Division II Non-Select division.
As of Wednesday, Kaplan has two games remaining this season. Both games are home. On Thursday, KHS plays No 15 Sulphur (14-10) and Northside Christian (10-2) on Monday. Northside Christian is No. 1 in the Class C Division.

Kaplan.............6
Assumption.....5
Despite seeing their 4-run lead whittled down by the end, Kaplan still held off for a 6-5 victory on Monday.
Kaplan had only three hits, while Assumption had eight.
A home run to left field by Addyson Hebert put Kaplan on the board in the bottom of the second.
Isabella Domingue hit a solo home run to left field in the top of the fifth for the Assumption.
Kaplan scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth on a home run to center field by Lexi Greene following a 8-pitch at-bat.
Greene stepped in the circle first for Kaplan. The starter gave up eight hits and five runs (three earned) over seven innings, striking out nine and walking one.
Greene led KHS with two hits in three at bats from the leadoff position. Addyson had the other hit.

Kaplan............................3
Natchitoches Central.....2
On Friday, KHS beat Natchitoches Central 3-2 after taking the lead late in the game.
Natchitoches Central (14-10) is ranked No. 14 in Division I Non-Select
Kaplan held a 2-0 lead until the fourth inning when Central scored a run.
The game was tied at two in the bottom of the sixth when Addyson Hebert singled, scoring one run. The go ahead run was set up when Liberty Greene walked and then stole second base. Hebert ripped the hit to left field.

Pitcher Lexi Greene earned the win for Kaplan. The hurler gave up three hits and two runs over seven innings, striking out 11 and walking two.
In the top of the seventh inning, Lexi retired Central with two ground outs and a strike out.
Kadey Duhon, Hebert, Baleigh Landry, and Greene each collected one hit for KHS.

Kaplan.....................9
Ouachita Parish.......1
Kaplan scored six runs in the sixth inning, which helped them defeat Ouachita Parish 9-1 on Friday.
Kaplan led 2-0 until the top of the sixth inning when it exploded for six runs and when the inning was over, Kaplan led 8-1.
In the top of the sixth frame, Cheyanne Breaux drew a walk, scoring one run, Taylor Madison induced Kadey Duhon to hit into a fielder’s choice, but one run scored, an error scored two runs, Madison induced Abbigale Ford to hit into a fielder’s choice, but one run scored, and Kalli Trahan singled, scoring one run.
A ground out by Emily Vidalier put Kaplan on the board in the top of the first inning.
Lexi Greene led things off in the circle for KHS. The pitcher allowed seven hits and one run over seven innings, striking out four and walking three.
Greene, Ford, and Liberty Greene each collected two hits for KHS.
Baleigh Landry and Ford each drove in two runs for KHS.
Kaplan had patience at the plate, amassing 11 walks for the game. Trahan, Duhon, Breaux, Addyson Hebert, and Landry led the team with two free passes each.

BATON ROUGE, La. – Alabama softball concluded its weekend road series against LSU with an 8-5 victory on Sunday afternoon at Tiger Park. However, LSU won the series against Alabama, taking two out of three games.

Kaplan High graduate Kennedy Marceaux made a plate appearance in the final game of the three-game series. She was brought in as a pinch hitter.
Throughout the season, Marceaux, a freshman, has played in 22 games and has started nine of them. She has recorded 35 plate appearances, with a batting average of .353, totaling 12 hits and nine runs batted in.
Currently, Alabama’s overall record stands at 28-15, with a conference record of 5-7 in the SEC.

ERATH – The No. 3 Erath Bobcats defeated the Select Division II No. 8-ranked ED White Cardinals 7-3 Saturday at Ross Granger Field to earn their 11th-straight victory.
The Bobcats (18-8) haven’t lost since March 7 when they fell to St. Thomas More. As his team prepares for its final four games and a playoff run, head coach Jeremy Picard likes what he sees.
“I like where we’re going,” Picard said. “We’re starting to swing the bat at the right time. We have some things to clean up defensively, but we’re headed in the right direction. We have four more hard baseball games. That’s why we do it, to prepare us for the playoffs.”
Seth Leger led the way for Erath on the mound and at the dish. The senior hurler threw a complete game to earn the win, allowing one earned run on seven hits and three walks while striking out five. At the plate, he had two hits and an RBI.
“That’s Seth Leger doing Seth Leger things,” Picard said. “We give him the ball against the Sulphurs and the Haughtons. He’s battle tested. Any time he has the ball, I like our chances.”
Leger isn’t worried about his personal accomplishments. He’s focused on getting the team ready for the playoffs.
“I’m just trying to do what’s best for the team,” Leger said. “I wasn’t focused on anything other than trying to get us the win. It’s more important to finish the season with wins so we can get a bye.”
Jack Landry got Erath on the board in the second inning when he sent a 3-1 pitch over the centerfield wall. Three batters later, Dominic Frederick doubled to left field to drive home Carter Champagne and make it 2-0.
Koah Copell scored on a passed ball in the third inning before the Bobcats exploded for four more runs in the fourth and a 7-0 lead. Landon LeMaire led off the inning with a single. He scored on an errant pickoff attempt at first.
Three batters later, Leger singled to right with the bases juiced to make it 5-0. Brennan Broussard followed with a double that scored Braxton Richard and Landen Derouen.
ED White got one back in the fifth with a sacrifice fly. They used a double and another sacrifice fly to score two more in the sixth, but that’s as close as they would get.
Frederick joined Leger with two hits and an RBI while Broussard had one hit and two RBI. Landry finished with the homer and one RBI while LeMaire, Champagne and Derouen each had hits.
Erath hosted Covenant Christian Tuesday. They travel to Catholic High on Thursday before finishing up the week Friday at VC.

Abbeville drivers, listen up! Police Chief Mike Hardy wants to remind you to follow the traffic laws, or you might end up facing some expensive consequences.
Hardy informed the city council and Mayor Roslyn White that he has recently brought on a patrolman, a former officer from Maurice, specifically to focus on one task during his shift: issuing tickets to those who violate traffic laws in Abbeville.
In just two weeks on the force, this patrolman has already issued over 142 tickets, averaging about 20 a day. Most of these citations are for drivers failing to stop at stop signs around Abbeville. One of his main hunting grounds for stop sign offenders is downtown, especially for those coming in from the La. 14 Bypass.
“That is his job to work traffic,” Hardy said at city council on Tuesday. “He has written a lot of tickets, because we want people to stop at stop signs. There is not such thing as a rolling stop, which was illegal. You need to stop.”
Chief Hardy mentioned that his department often receives calls from residents reporting speeding drivers or those ignoring stop signs. To address these concerns, he plans to assign a patrolman to the specific areas where the complaints originate.
“He’ll focus on that area and cover it thoroughly,” Hardy stated.
The definition of stopping at stop sign means coming to a complete and momentary halt before the stop line, crosswalk, or the edge of the intersection, and then proceeding only when it’s safe and you yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and pedestrians.
One driver was given two running the stop sign tickets on one traffic stop because they rolled through two stops signs before the patrolman could pull the driver over.
Another driver received two running the stop sign tickets in a week by the same patrolman.
“People will tell him that they slowed down at the stop sign,” Hardy said. “It is not a slow down sign. It is stop sign.”
For those who have been given a ticket for running a stop sign in Abbeville, be prepared to pay $215. The average traffic ticket cost in Abbeville is $215.
If you decide to drive through a yield sign around Magdalen Square, that is going to cost you $215. If you run a red light or did not put your signal on when you turned, $215 per ticket.
The city fine for having illegal tint on your vehicle is $205.
If you are caught speeding, a ticket could cost anywhere from $220 to $350, depending on how fast the driver was going.
Chief Hardy explained the reason why he assigned this new patrolman to traffic.
“Abbeville has a lot of accidents for a small town,” he said. “People have a bad habit of running stop signs. Most just roll through the stop sign. If there is a four-way stop, and both are rolling through, they hit each other. No one stopped.
“If we enforce it, we are trying to change the habit of the Abbeville driver. We are not trying to be mean.”